According to officials, an Ohio fire service was utilizing a search and rescue tool combing the bank areas of the nearby pond when the child's body was found beneath the surface of the water shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday. Sheriff deputies said his body was just three feet from shore in the pond which wouldn't have been there if it hadn't rained this weekend.

"At this point there's nothing to indicate foul play, the family has been extremely cooperative throughout the process. We believe the child merely just wandered away and got too close to the water and fell in,” said Fayette County Sheriff Vernon Stanforth. “We're never equipped to deal with death regardless of where it is, it’s especially troubling when you have a small baby.”

Hundreds of volunteers walking side by side, combed the woods, dive teams swam creeks-ponds and a quarry, one man put 110 miles on his squad bike searching the backroads.

"We're not doing it for the mom and dad we're doing it for that little man, whew,” said Dalton Knapp, volunteer. “It don't have to be family, friends, it's a love of people.”

The incident remains under investigation.

“All the parents, you gotta watch the little ones; they can be 10 feet from you one minute and a 100 yards the next and that 100 yards is what got us out here,” said Knapp.